Publisher's Description
From Suncross:
Why do you need Network Drive Manager? Network Drive Manager (NDM) is a utility for managing network drives, which brings added value to home users, small business users and large enterprise users that access network drives in a (wireless) network. During Windows log-on NDM ensures that all network drives under its control get connected and activated, where after they are periodically reconnected to prevent deactivation. In case network resources are not (yet) available or if the connection with a network resource is temporarily lost (e.g. when resuming a notebook from standby or if a wireless network connection was interrupted), NDM actively attempts to reconnect the network drives. Optionally it can run programs, open documents or mount TrueCrypt volumes after a network drive has been successfully connected. What's wrong with mapping network drives in Windows? Windows doesn't take the trouble to ensure network drives get properly connected after log-on which frequently results in network drives that are visible in Windows Explorer, but that are not active. This causes problems, e.g. when a network drive is used for centrally storing data like documents or settings. Applications that use these centrally stored files will complain or even fail to start because the network location is not accessible. Even if Windows manages to connect network drives properly at start-up, the next problem is that these network drives get deactivated (i.e. become inaccessible) after a certain amount of idle time. This might result in complaining applications again because they're not able to access their data on disk. It can even end in data loss if applications don't anticipate on these scenarios and if the Windows write caching mechanism produces "Windows Delayed Write Failed" messages.
What's new in this version: Version 2.7 adds "Remove all network drives" menu option; adds "Remove all network drives on exit" option to preferences; rearranges menu options and toolbar.
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"Serves its purpose well"
Version: Network Drive Manager 2.5
Pros
Far more efficient than than any VBS or Batch script, great in non-domain environments. Quick to automatically reconnect drives, light on resources, eliminates unwanted notifications.
Cons
Too expensive, especially after currency conversion from US dollar (nearly $22 per computer). Cost not appropriate for business or other environments with lots of computers.
Summary
Great software for small home or office workgroup networks.
Correction: cost is now more steep that previously (ouch):
Updated on Sep 2, 2009
1-1 USD: 31.30
2-9 USD: 20.32
10-49 USD: 15.61
50-99 USD: 12.47
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"Great for monitoring drive mappings and reconnecting."
Version: Network Drive Manager 2.5
Pros
You can see the status of drive mappings and you can reconnect after a network failure on a Windows Network, just like on a Novell NetWare Network!
Cons
You have to be careful you don't click on the wrong button because it doesn't have labels for some of the pop-up features.
Summary
I started to look for this type of product because a busy director didn't want to have to reboot or logoff and on to get Windows drive mappings to work again. And we are always having to remap drives due-to server reboots, so this might be a great solution for our network nightmares, until Microsoft improves their drive mapping features.
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"Does its job very well"
Version: Network Drive Manager 2
Pros
This program silently does its job very well.
Saves us a lot of frustration about the disconnected computers we had earlier in our network.
Rock solid, runs well after weeks of operation.
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"Ensures my network drives get connected"
Version: Network Drive Manager 2
Pros
This program really ensures that all my network drives get reconnected after
startup my PC, and it manages well to prevent loosing the connection. The latter
was an annoying problem when I used mapping network drives of Windows.
This is the only program in its kind that I could find on the internet.
Clear interface.
Cons
Personally I'm not using the "run program" feature after the drives have been connected, but I think it might be handy if this list could be configured per drive.
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"Very good!"
Version: Network Drive Manager 2
Pros
This app goes beyond where Windows Explorer fails; it reconnects drives at startup and activates them instantly.
When using Explorer's map network drive, I always loose the connection after a while. This app prevents my drives from disconnecting.
Another nice feature is that it can launch other programs when the network drives are connected. This saves me restarting and clicking away annoying error messages when my network drives are not yet ready.
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"Not cheap and haven't got enough features"
Version: Network Drive Manager 2
Pros
Got a better overview than the DOS-based "net use" would give.
Loading programs when a network drives reconnects.
It may give little help for beginners and it has a detailed help file.
Cons
What is that feature you can't do with your own simple Windows Explorer? This program brings - SELL - you the basics you already have with your operating system. I wouldn't pay for this.
It'll list all drive letters - even if they are already mapped. When you accidently map a share to an occupied letter, it won't ask before to replace it or no.
I suggest an uninstaller to the program group.
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